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Objectives: By the end of the session, participants should be able to:

• Define the elements that guide UNICEF’s humanitarian action, including the human rights based approach to programming and the CCCs

• Describe the characteristics and challenges posed by complex emergencies
• Explain UNICEF and the inter-agency approach to protection
• Identify the link between protection, assistance, and advocacy, and the need to integrate and apply these concepts in humanitarian action

Key Messages:

• UNICEF has an important role in protecting children’s rights in emergencies
• Complex emergencies pose specific challenges to humanitarian actors, including the denial of humanitarian access, presence of NSEs, and human rights abuses
• Protection includes all activities aimed at ensuring respect and fulfillment of human rights. For UNICEF, child protection means protection from violence, abuse and exploitation
• Protection, assistance, and advocacy are the key components of rights-based humanitarian action.
• UNICEF’s humanitarian action is guided by its Core Commitments for Children